Tyler's Best- Thinking about the subject

For this week's photo blog, I wanted to show the focus that's been in the back of my head for a few weeks -- making cleaner images. With my photography background mostly in photojournalism and landscape photography, I find the two styles (particularly in how the photo is exectuted) often clash. With photojournalism it's not meant to be perfect: things being out of focus, the composition not making any sense and using tilted horizons to create visual interest. While on the other hand you have landscape photography, which is meant to be perfect -- thinking about composition so it's perfect, setting up a tripod and waiting for the perfect light, having perfect sharpness through the whole image, etc.

So, by saying I want to create and capture cleaner images, I do not mean with the perfection of landscapes, nor the imperfections that make photojournalism, but a mix of the two that can show what that event is all about in one clean, sharp and engaging image.

This week's photo blog features some of my favorite photos from the past week, including: Ski Broncs, downtown businesses and attractions, Guilford High School's graduation, a landscape of our great downtown, the fun of the Millennium Fountain, the annual Memorial Day Parade and the grand opening of the UW Health Sports Factory,